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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Yves Tumor:
🎵 Kerosene!
#YvesTumor
https://pleasetrax.bandcamp.com/track/yves-tumor-kerosene-please-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/2OoKzfr7RB5o9cxHArUoIS

Where do y'all get your random SMT breakouts from? I'm running low on SOIC8 to DIP8 ones and adafruit seems like they're no longer a good option. And I'm not in the mood to DIY every variant I need in kicad and send to oshpark.
There's a ton on aliexpress but I'm not sure how bad the tariff situation is for random one-off small items from China to the US these days... I know at one point there were threats of like $100 per low-value shipment once de minimis was …

Russians GOT DUPED – occupiers' Starlinks BLOCKED! Major aid package for Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/16/russians-got-duped-occupiers-starlinks.html

Got to be at least 40 years of the government declaring somewhere to be the UK's Silicon Valley, surely?
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/oxford-cambridge-corridor-to-be-uks-silicon-valley

Oxford-Cambridge corridor to be UK’s “Silicon Valley”
People living and working  in the Oxford to Cambridge Growth Corridor to benefit from additional investment to bring forward development and infrastructure.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #UltimateCalm
Julianna Barwick & Julianna Barwick:
🎵 Labyrinthine
#JuliannaBarwick
https://open.spotify.com/track/58OsQvr8IkoysLGiaLth6I

I am sad: I was going to get tickets to the annual Tolkien Lecture here in Oxford. It is Brandon Sanderson this year, and yeah, I know, but it was the only time I was going to get to see the lecture. Tickets went on sale 3m ago at noon British time on Eventbrite. I was logged in, good to go, and the whole event locked up at precisely 12:00 with a flood. I got no tickets and the next refresh showed the whole thing sold out. It was faster than ShmooCon. I can only assume there was a flood of S…

@… to discontinue P2 Solo #sequencer
this is surprising, although I can imagine selling sequencer integrated with computer (P2i) is way more profitable (and you get to charge for support on annual basis), so probably P2S reduces their profit from larger seque…

ONT P2 Solo To Be Discontinued
So, the Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo has been discontinued, and a lot of people seem to be rather upset.

BURNING EAGLE & 1.2M OCCUPIERS ELIMINATED: Ukraine DESTROYS Russia’s war machine!: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/burning-eagle-ampamp-m-occupiers.html

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Courtney Barnett:
🎵 One Thing at a Time
#CourtneyBarnett
https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/track/one-thing-at-a-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/2o2s7sFRf9XByKXoV0Qw6e

1,000–5,000 Cubans are fighting on the side of the occupiers, according to US intelligence #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/cubans-are-fighting-on-the.html